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Frank Sinatra's Awards & Achievements
Article by Steve Pond

ACADEMY AWARDS

1945: Nominated, Best Original Song

• "I Fall in Love too Easily," from the motion picture Anchors Aweigh
• Music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn
• Sung by Frank Sinatra

1945: Special Academy Award

• To the makers of The House I Live In
• Shared with Frank Ross, Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Maltz, Earl Robinson and Lewis Allen

1954: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity

1954: Best Original Song

• "Three Coins in the Fountain," from the motion picture Three Coins in the Fountain
• Music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn
• Sung by Frank Sinatra

1955: Nominated, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Frank Sinatra in The Man with the Golden Arm

1957: Best Original Song

• "All the Way," from the motion picture The Joker Is Wild
• Music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Sammy Cahn
• Sung by Frank Sinatra

1959: Best Original Song

• "High Hopes," from the motion picture A Hole in the Head
• Music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Sammy Cahn

1964: Nominated, Best Original Song

• "My Kind of Town" from the motion picture Robin and the 7 Hoods
• Music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Sammy Cahn

1970: The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award


EMMY AWARDS

• 1955: Best Song, "Love and Marriage"
• 1956: Nominated, Best Male Singer
• 1966: Outstanding Musical Program: Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music
• 1966: Nominated, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety or Music (Dwight Hemion):
  Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music
• 1969: Nominated, Outstanding Variety or Musical Program: Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing
• 1970: Nominated, Outstanding Variety or Musical Program: Sinatra
• 1973: Nominated, Best Directing in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music (Marty Pasetta): Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra (aka Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back)
• 1974: Nominated, Outstanding Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music Special:
  Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra

GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS

• 1946: Special Golden Globe for The House I Live In
• 1954: Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture: From Here to Eternity
• 1958: Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy: Pal Joey
• 1963: Nominated, Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy: Come Blow Your Horn
• 1971: Cecil B. De Mille Lifetime Achievement Award

BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS (BAFTA)

• 1955: Nominated, Best Foreign Actor: The Man with the Golden Arm
• 1956: Nominated, Best Foreign Actor: Not as a Stranger

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS

• Lifetime Achievement Award, 1973

LAUREL AWARDS

• 1957: Top Male Musical Performance: Pal Joey
• 1958: Top Male Dramatic Performance: Some Came Running
• 1960: Top Male Musical Performance: Can-Can
• 1961: Nominee, Top Action Performance: The Devil at 4 O'Clock
• 1962: Nominee, Top Action Performance: The Manchurian Candidate
• 1965: Nominee, Top Action Performance: Von Ryan's Express
• Nine-time nominee: Top Male Star: 1958-1964, 1966, 1967

NEW YORK FILM CRITICS AWARDS

• Nominated, best actor: The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955

DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE POLLS

• Readers' poll Male Singer of the Year sixteen times between 1941 and 1966
• Readers' poll Personality of the Year six times between 1954 and 1959
• Critics' poll Male Singer of the Year twice, in 1955 and 1957

PLAYBOY MAGAZINE MUSIC AWARDS

• Jazz All-Star readers' poll Male Vocalist of the Year seven times between 1957 and 1963

PEABODY AWARDS

• George Foster Award: Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, 1963

GOLDEN APPLE AWARDS

• Least Cooperative Actor, 1946, 1951, 1974
• Male Star of the Year, 1977

OTHER AWARDS, HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award, 1983
• Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President Ronald Reagan, 1985
• Congressional Gold Medal, 1997
• Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame, 1980
• Inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame, 2007
• Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAACP, 1987
• Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Singers, 1990
• Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Cinema Awards, 1992
• Lifetime Achievement Aweard (The Desert Palm) from the
  Palm Springs International Film Festival, 1992
• Three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame:
  For his contribution to motion pictures, 1600 Vine Street
  For his contribution to recording, 1637 Vine Street
  For his contribution to television, 6538 Hollywood Boulevard
• Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology, 1985
• Honorary membership in Alpha Phi Delta
• Ranked in the Quigley's Top Ten Money-Makers Poll five times: 1956 (#10), 1957 (5), 1958 (10), 1959 (7) and 1960 (8)

• Amassed an annual income estimated at the end of his career in the tens of millions of dollars; this includes income from concerts, recordings, real estate ventures and holdings in several companies, including a missile-parts concern, a private airline, Reprise Records (which he founded), Artanis Productions (Sinatra spelled backwards) and Sinatra Enterprises.
• Performed on more than 1,800 musical recordings
• Performed in Rio DeJaneiro before an audience of more than 175,000 people, an audience certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest attendance at a concert by a soloist.
• Every year on Sinatra's birthday, December 12, the Empire State Building is lit with blue lights in honor of his nickname, "Ol' Blue Eyes."
• Named the "Greatest Voice of the Twentieth Century" by BBC Radio 2, 2001

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